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Feb 4, 2020

This 7,000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, archaeologists say

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Its design shines a light on technical skills that researchers didn’t think Neolithic people possessed.


Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old Neolithic well in eastern Europe, which they believe is the oldest wooden structure in the world.

The square well was built with oak by farmers around 5256 B.C., according to researchers who pinpointed its origin after analyzing the tree rings in the wood, which is the scientific method known as dendrochronology. The well’s age makes it the oldest dendrochronologically dated archaeological wooden construction worldwide, according to the researchers in the Czech Republic.

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Feb 2, 2020

Photographer Captures Shot of “Frozen” White Rainbow in Scotland

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This mystical colorless rainbow lasted less than five minutes, just long enough to capture proof it existed

A UK-based landscape photographer recently traveled to a moor in Western Scotland to take pictures of a beautiful, solitary tree standing in the middle of the icy wasteland.

Feb 2, 2020

How Microrobots Will Fix Our Roads and Save Us Billions

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Swarms of microrobots will scuttle along beneath our roads and pavements, finding and fixing leaky pipes and faulty cables. Thanks to their efforts, we can avoid costly road work that costs billions of dollars each year—not to mention frustrating traffic delays.

That is, if a new project sponsored by the U.K. government is a success. Recent developments in the space seem to point towards a bright future for microrobots.

Feb 2, 2020

Mysterious Egyptian artifact from the Bronze Age found off Israeli coast

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A veterinarian taking a morning swim found what turned out to be an anchor engraved with hieroglyphs on the seafloor. But who defaced the Egyptian goddess?

Feb 2, 2020

A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted

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O.o!


The N.I.H. will create expert panels to assess controversial research into creating pathogens that easily infect humans.

Feb 2, 2020

Coronavirus — Cats and dogs ‘thrown from tower blocks’ in China after fake news rumours animals are causing spread

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PANICKING pet owners are reportedly throwing cats and dogs out of towerblocks following bogus claims deadly coronavirus can be passed on by animals.

Chilling pictures coming out of crisis-hit China are said to show the bloodied corpses of animals lying in the road after being hurled to their death.

One dog was found dead after allegedly being thrown from one block of flats in Tianjin City in Hebei Province — home to the outbreak epicentre Wuhan.

Feb 2, 2020

Canberra Fires : Wall of Flames Moving toward city

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Canberra fires: Extraordinary images emerging from the fires in Canberra.

The Australian Capital is under threat tonight as a massive bushfire emerges amid soaring heat and high winds.

A huge wall of flames moving over hills toward the Australian capital of Canberra tonight.

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Feb 2, 2020

The Cure for Grey Hair

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Research suggests that a cure for grey hair is close. In the near future, it will be possible to reverse grey hair (also spelt gray).

Feb 2, 2020

An Ancient Australian Volcano Is a Haven for Giant Pink Slugs

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Just because they’re huge and garish doesn’t mean they’re easy to find.

Feb 2, 2020

99-million-year-old millipede discovered in Burmese amber

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Even though we are led to believe that during the Cretaceous the Earth used to be an exclusive home for fearsome giants, including carnivorous velociraptors and arthropods larger than a modern adult human, it turns out that there was still room for harmless minute invertebrates measuring only several millimetres.

Such is the case of a tiny millipede of only 8.2 mm in length, recently found in 99-million-year-old amber in Myanmar. Using the latest research technologies, the scientists concluded that not only were they handling the first fossil millipede of the order (Callipodida) and also the smallest amongst its contemporary relatives, but that its morphology was so unusual that it drastically deviated from its contemporary relatives.

As a result, Prof. Pavel Stoev of the National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria) together with his colleagues Dr. Thomas Wesener and Leif Moritz of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (Germany) had to revise the current millipede classification and introduce a new suborder. To put it in perspective, there have only been a handful of millipede suborders erected in the last 50 years. The findings are published in the open-access journal ZooKeys.